About me

I am an associate professor in the department of philosophy at Bilkent University. I work on the history of moral and political philosophy, ancient (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics), Medieval (Heloise, Christine de Pizan), early modern (Cavendish) and Eighteenth Century (Wollstonecraft, Sophie de Grouchy, Marie-Jeanne Roland). I also work on contemporary social and political philosophy, with an emphasis on the capability approach and feminism. I am an active member of the Recovery Project and currently translating Sophie de Grouchy's Lettres sur la Sympathie into English.I teach social and political philosophy, introduction to philosophy, and have taught aesthetics, ancient philosophy and a course on the rationalists. I aim in my teaching to present a less skewed view of what it is to be a philosopher by offering a more varied list of readings.I am the co-recipient, with Alan Coffee, KCL, of a Newton Mobility Fellowship.am the co-founder of the Turkish-European Network for the Study of Women Philosophers.

My latest project is an intellectual biography : Liberty, Thy Name! Three Women of the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges, Manon Roland, Sophie de Grouchy. Follow me here to find out about all the quirky bits of history I unearth as I work though this.